On Thursday 21 of February 2008, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008, Elan Ruusamäe wrote:
> > ~/.rpmmacros:
> >
> > %argtest(p:b:a:) %{-b:b=%{-b*}} 1=%1
> >
> > $ rpm -E "%argtest -p 1 -b 2 param1 param2"
> > b=2 1=param1
> >
> > $ rpm -E "%argtest param1 param2 -p 1 -b 2"
> >  1=param1
> >
> > thus, if parameters are passed before options, the options are not to be
> > seen
>
> Yes, the RPM macro parser uses positional options and does not support
> permutations of options and arguments (as it was based on getopt and
> because it makes sense for macros anyway). 

Hm, so how this was done in rpm4? (where macro args worked fine that way)

>                                        Ralf S. Engelschall


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